- All Time Wins: 2377 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- All Time Winning Percentage: .765 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- NCAA Championships: 8 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 12 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- NCAA Final Four Appearances: 17 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- NCAA Final Four Games Played: 28 (NCAA rank No. 3)
- NCAA Final Four Wins: 20 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- NCAA Final Four Winning Percentage: .715 (NCAA rank No. 8)
- NCAA Elite-8 Appearances: 38 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- NCAA Sweet-16 Appearances: 45 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 59 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- NCAA Tournament Games Played: 184 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- NCAA Tournament Wins: 131 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .719 (NCAA rank No. 4)
- Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 63 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- NBA Draft Picks: 110 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- All-Americans: 57 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- All-American Total Selections: 87 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- First Team Consensus All-Americans: 20 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 25 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 825 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 653 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 441 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- AP Poll No. 1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 120 (NCAA rank No. 3)
- Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 49 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 49 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 44 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 40 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 29 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final AP Poll No. 1 Finishes: 10 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- All Time Winning Percentage Against AP-Ranked Opponents: .615 (NCAA Rank No. 1)
- Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-25 Finishes: 47 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-20 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-15 Finishes: 43 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-10 Finishes: 39 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-5 Finishes: 30 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Final UPI/Coaches' Poll No. 1 Finishes: 8 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total 20-Win Seasons: 59 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total 25-Win Seasons: 33 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total 30-Win Seasons: 14 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total 35-Win Seasons: 6 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Average Victories Per Season Played: 19.4464285714(NCAA rank No. 3)
- Average Losses Per Season Played: 6.0 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Winning Seasons: 95 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 98 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Undefeated Seasons: 2 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Head Coaches With an NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships: 1 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships in the Same Decade: 1 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Head Coaches With an NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances in the Same Decade: 4 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Head Coaches With an NCAA Final Four Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Final Four Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Final Four Appearances in the Same Decade: 4 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Head Coaches With Both NCAA and NIT Championships: 2 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades With an NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championships: 3 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades With an NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 6 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 5 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades With an NCAA Final Four Appearance: 7 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Final Four Appearances: 5 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades No. 1 in Total Wins (since 1930): 1 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Total Decades Top-5 in Total Wins (since 1930): 4 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades Top-10 in Total Wins (since 1930): 7 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades No. 1 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 2 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades Top-5 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 6 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Total Decades Top-10 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 7 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- Conference regular season championships: 53 (NCAA rank No. 2)
- Conference tournament championships: 33 (NCAA rank No. 1)
- National Attendance Titles: 25 (NCAA rank No. 1)
Kentucky can also lay claim to several individual achievements for both players and coaches:
- 13 players winning NBA Championships a total of 20 times
- 12 players named NBA All-Star a total of 23 times
- 12 Olympic Gold Medal winners
- 11 Naismith Hall-of-Fame members
- 5 players named National Player-of-the-Year
- 2 players named National Freshman-of-the-Year
- 6 head coaches named National Coach-of-the Year a total of 14 times
- 7 head coaches named SEC Coach-of-the-Year a total of 22 times
- 138 players named All-Conference a total of 231 times
- 82 players named to the All-Conference Tournament Team a total of 118 times
- 12 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 14 times
- 7 players named Conference Freshman-of-the-Year
- 31 players named to the All-Conference Freshman Team
- 15 players named Conference tournament MVP a total of 16 times
- 18 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 21 times
- 51 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 65 times
- 5 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 6 times
- 12 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 13 times
- 74 players who played in the NBA at least one season
- 60 1000-point scorers
- 52 players named McDonald's All-American
- 6 times being ranked No. 1 in the season opening AP Poll
- 6 times being ranked No. 1 in the season opening UPI/Coaches' Poll
- 12 times a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament
- 4 times being the NCAA official No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament
- Kentucky has 2 NIT Championships (1946, 1976), 7 Helms Titles (1933, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1978), 2 undefeated seasons (1912, 1954), 5 Sugar Bowl tournament championships (1937, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1963), a league best all time SEC regular season record of 943–261 (.783), a league best 46 SEC regular season Championships, a league best all time SEC Tournament record of 124–25 (.832) and a league best 28 SEC tournament championships. Kentucky also holds the SEC's all time consecutive win streak among all past or present SEC schools at 38 straight victories, and is one of only 2 SEC schools to ever finish at 21–0 for the entire SEC season (18–0 record in the SEC regular season, plus a 3–0 record in the SEC Tournament).
- Kentucky holds the NCAA records for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), Consecutive Home Court Victories (129), for Total Victories in a Season (38), and for the best start for any season in NCAA Men's Basketball history at 38–0.
- Kentucky plays in the nation's largest basketball arena (Rupp Arena, capacity: 23,500), and has both the nation's largest radio and television affiliate networks.
- Kentucky has made a 3-point basket in 1013 consecutive games (leads the nation), and have won 17 of the last 20 National Attendance Titles, including 8 of the last 10, and 25 overall.
- Kentucky is the only school to have multiple NCAA (8) and NIT (2) Championships, the only school to have 5 NCAA Championship head coaches, the only school to have 4 coaches with multiple NCAA Championship Game appearances, the only school to have 4 coaches with multiple NCAA Championship Game appearances in the same decade, the only school to have 4 coaches with 3 NCAA Final Four appearances, the only school to win NCAA Championships in 5 decades, the only school to win multiple NCAA Championships in 3 decades, the only school to have NCAA Championship Game appearances in 5 decades, the only school to have multiple NCAA Championship Game appearances in 5 decades, the only school to have multiple NCAA Final Four appearances in 5 decades, the only school to have 2 head coaches win both NCAA and NIT Championships, and the one of only 2 schools to have 2 head coaches win an NCAA Championship in the same decade.
- Kentucky has played before the largest regulation basketball game crowd in history (79,444), the largest Final Four game crowd in history (79,444), the largest NCAA Championship Game crowd in history (79,238), and the largest total Final Four game crowd (both games) in history (158,682).
- Kentucky is the only school to have 5 players selected in the 1st-Round of the NBA draft in the same year (2010), the only school to have both the No. 1 and No. 2 picks of the NBA draft in the same year (2012), the only school to have 6 players drafted in the first 2 rounds of the NBA draft in the same year (2012, 2015), and the only school to sign 6 McDonald's All-Americans in the same year (2013).
- Kentucky was the first college program to reach both the 1000-win and 2000-win victory plateaus.
- Kentucky is the first team to be live-broadcast on the SEC Network.
- Kentucky is one of only three schools to have 9 McDonald's All-Americans on a single roster.
- Kentucky is the first school to hold an on-campus NBA Combine.
Kentucky is the first school to hold an on-campus NBA Combine.
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